Converting from SVG for some printed output

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Hi,

Our OpenGL printing work flow is currently mostly based on the 
conversion of EPS files generated by GL2PS into other formats through 
the use of Ghostscript (for raster formats and pdf) and pstoedit/fig2dev 
for other vector formats such as xfig, emf ... The only exceptions are 
pdflatex(standalone), which directly makes use of GL2PS native pdf 
format, and svg. See attached file for a summary.

This conversion chain inherits all the limitations of the original EPS file:

* Only 127 ascii characters are supported

* Only the 14 base fonts can be used

* Transparency is not handled at all

On the other hand we have a pretty full-featured SVG output. I thus 
wrote a Qt based program that converts SVG from GL2PS (it is in no way a 
general purpose svg converter, see http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52193) 
to PDF, and I would like to know if there is interest in adding this 
program to Octave?

My idea would be to replace the EPS->Ghostscript chain to 
SVG->PDF->Ghostscript for the following final formats: any Ghostscript 
raster format (jpg, png, pbm, ...) and pdf (go through Ghostscript to 
setup the surrounding page).  For "pdfwrite" (no surrounding page) we 
would simply use SVG->PDF conversion.

Pantxo

OpenGL_Print.ods
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